Not shocked that they are spying on us. But I am shocked that they shamelessly try to justify themselves by saying that we NEED to be spied on. I mean, we know every time we walk outside that a camera might be on us. Every time we log on, we take the chance that someone else knows about it. That's a given. But our government is supposed to be one OF THE PEOPLE. They work for us. They are us. Seems like they have their surveillance equipment pointed in the wrong direction.

If anyone's interested in getting Snowden pardoned so he can get back into the country, there's a petition at whitehouse.gov. It still needs about 22,000 signatures before they'll even look at it. You can go to the site and search for civil rights petitions, but they don't make it easy to find so here's a link:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD

I'm an American so I support our country and Israeli allies. In your country your government is G*D and can destroy your life with the flick of their wrist. There are idiots in the government though. But yeah, America is strong because of allies and the CIA not pulling any punches. Not happy? Too bad. Snowden is probably a double agent anyways for all we know. I'm sure the countries he's going to are cautious. You think the media found out by accident? National security trumps freedom of press. Without security you can't have true freedom.